[Adopted as Ch. XX, Part 2C, of the 1979 Code of Ordinances]
A. 
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PERSON
Includes any natural person, partnership, firm or corporation.
B. 
The singular shall include the plural and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, construct or maintain any article or thing that shall overhang any sidewalk except with a clearance of at least eight feet above the surface of the sidewalk.
It shall be unlawful for any person hereafter to construct or place any gasoline or oil tank or pump upon or beneath any sidewalk or curb within the Borough of Mount Holly Springs.
It shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct any sidewalk or curb by placing thereon any goods, wares or merchandise, or any stand, table or container therefor. Provided: nothing in this section shall apply to:
A. 
Goods, wares and merchandise while in the actual process of being loaded or unloaded;
B. 
Refuse in proper container placed at the curb for collection as authorized by the Borough.
Within 24 hours after notice from the Borough Council to do so, the owner of any premises abutting upon a sidewalk whereon or whereover any article or thing, gasoline or oil tank or pump, goods, wares or merchandise shall be constructed, placed or maintained in violation of any of the provisions of this article, shall remove such obstruction or encroachment, in default of which the Borough Council may cause the same to be removed and shall thereupon collect the cost of such removal, with an additional amount of 10% from such property owner in default.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred by the Borough in the enforcement proceedings. Upon judgment against any person by summary conviction, or by proceedings by summons on default of the payment of the fine or penalty imposed and the costs, the defendant may be sentenced and committed to the Borough correctional facility for a period not exceeding 10 days or to the county correctional facility for a period not exceeding 30 days. Each day that such violation exists shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this article that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense. In addition to or in lieu of enforcement under this section, the Borough may enforce this article in equity in the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County. Provided further: the penalty imposed under this section may be in addition to the cost of removal of an obstruction or encroachment, and an additional amount of 10%, as authorized by § 446-28 of this article.